Both drama are about a "perfect" capable career woman who just wants to sit back, relax and be a total mess inside her own house(gym clothes+beer+manga= happiness). Romance that makes our heroines both become comfortable with showing their true self and slowly make some space in their life for the male lead. Some up and downs but basically both are short, fun and sweet drama with a dose of ridiculous moments of course.
When I watch the first five minutes of Love Kome, I automatically thought of Hotaru and her sweatpants at home with a can of beer! They give us the same vibe of capable women working in an office but at home she is a totally different person.
The main similarity is the on/off mode of our main character and their need to hide their insecurities and personality traits they think that contrast their "perfect" image(if you ask me everyone shows a different face depending on where they are anyway) . Another similarity is the sweet/demanding persona of the mls. Also both drama have a younger man/older woman romance.
Same with the 2003 version: The main similarity is the on/off mode of our main character and their need to hide their insecurities and personality traits they think that contrast their "perfect" image(if you ask me everyone shows a different face depending on where they are anyway) . Another similarity is the sweet/demanding persona of the mls. Also older woman/younger man trope happens in both.
When her boyfriend was caught cheating on her, Terada Aki moved out of her apartment and into a sharehouse, where she found herself reunited with her first love, Hongyo Tomoya. Hongyo is novelist, but he has recently been having trouble with his writing, and he asked Terada for help - with a shocking proposal. To complicate matters, the other residents in the sharehouse also start interfering in Terada's life.
